Cigar-printing machine



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J. W. & G. F. MoINDOE.

CIGAR PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 394,987. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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CIGAR PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 394,987. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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CIGAR PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 394,987. Patented Dec.

WITHEESEE.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES \V. MCINDOE AND GEORGE F. MCINDOE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CIGAR-PRINTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,987, dated December 25, 1888. Application filed March 22, 1387- fiierial No. 231,914. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern: mediate gear, a, on the shaft which in turn Be it known that we, JAMES \V. MCINDOE meshes with the gear on the shaft 1'). These and GEORGE F. MCINDOE, both of Boston, in gears, preferably, are arranged on the outside the county of Suffolk and State of Massachuof the side frame. 1

setts, both citizens of the United States, have To feed the cigars to the feed-roll, we eminvented a new and. useful Improvement in ploy an inclined table, D, the edge of which Cigar-Printing Machines, of which the followextends closely to the surface of the feed-roll. ing is a full, clear, and exact description, ref- This table is inclined snliiciently to permit ence being had to the accompanying drawthe cigars to be laid thereon side by side in a I ings, forming a part of this specification, in line and to move by gravity downward into explaining its nature. 1 the holding-recesses of the feed-roll, and is so The invention relates to various details of arranged or located in relation thereto that organization and construction, all of which each holding-recess takes but one cigar as it will be hereinafter described. passes the end of the table, so that a constant 6 5 5 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side automatic feeding of the cigar to the feedelevation of our improved machine. Fig. 2 is roll is obtained. This is one of the results a vertical central section thereof upon the of mounting the feed-roll upon a horizontal line 0c 00 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rather than upon a vertical shaft. machine. Fig. 4 is aview in section upon the To receive the cigars after they have been 20 line 3 y of Fig. 3, looking toward the side upon printed or impressed, we have arranged the which the handle is mounted. receiving-table E in a position to receivethe Referring to the drawings, A represents the cigars from their holding-recesses after they die-cylinder-that is, the cylinder which carhave passed the die-cylinder. The recesses dies the printing or impression dies. It is are then turned sufficiently so that the cigars 25 mounted upon a horizontal shaft, (1, which has leave them automatically by gravity and roll bearings in the side frames of the machine. down the bed or table E into a box placed to B is the cigar-feeding roll. It is mounted receive them. The die-cylinder may beheated upon a horizontal shaft, 1), each end of which by a gas-jet directed upon the dies and roll is supported by a box,b, adjustable by screws or extended into the cavity of the cylinder, 0 1) upon the said side frames of the machine, or it maybe heated in any other desired way. so that the feed-roll maybe moved toward and The advantages of the invention arise from from the die-cylinder. It has formed in its the simplicity of the construction and from periphery a number of horizontal recesses, b the means which it affords for automatically of a size and shape to receive and hold cigars and quickly feeding and delivering the cigars 3 5 and to properly support them while they are to and from the feeding device.

in contact with the impressing or printing \Ve have represented asameaus of heating dies. The roll is of the same size as the diethe impression-dies a stove or lamp, F, (see cylinder, and has a cigar-holder or a cigar- Fig. 1,) which is provided witha pipe or tube, holding recess for each die upon the surface f, by which heat is taken to the end f of the 40 of the printing-cylinder, and the said cylinder cylinder A, which is made hollow, and which and roll are geared to each other so that their has holes or openings at the other end to proopposing faces are turned or moved in the vide for the circulation of theheated air in the same direction, which brings each die oppocylinder. \Ve would say, however, that we do site a holder or recess in the feed-roll as they not confine ourselves to this particular means 45 are rotated. for heating the cylinder, as any other well- We have represented the die-cylinder as reknown means may be employed for this purvolved by means of the handle C, (see Fig. 3,) pose. Ye have also shown mounted upon the attached to the shaft 0, which has hearings in frame a tray, H, which is adapted to hold wathe frame and carries a gear-wheel, c, which ter and has connected with said tray awater- I 0 50 meshes with the gear-wheel c on the shaft a. conductor, H, arranged to bear against the The gear-wheel 0 also meshes with the interupper surface of the cigars as they are fed to the feed-roll l which is of a porous material, and which absorbs the water from the tank or tray like a sponge and ,takes and delivers it to the cigars.

By applying moisture to the cigars before they are subjected to the action of theheated impressing-dies we render the wrappers ot' the cigars sutliciently tough, so that they will not be broken by the dies, and we have discovered that when the moistened wrappers are impressed by the heated dies the dark color due to the moisture is rendered pm'manent; (at'ter the cigars have again become din) where the faces of the dies strike the wrappers, so that the letters or characters impressed on the moistened cigars by the heated dies are much more distinct than they would be it the eiga rs were not: moistened before being" impressed by the dies. I

It will be observed that the tank or tra l-l and the conductor ll" constitute an autmnatic cigar-moistener, and that the stove ot lamp h and the tube or pipe j" which conveys the heat to the interior of the die-cylimler constitute a die-heater. The inclined feeding-table and the teed-roll l constitute a cigar-feeder, and the said roll B, in connection with the die-cylinder, constitutes a ci gar-i mpressor. ()f co'u rse it will be understood that any well-known equivalents for these cigar moistening', i'eeds ing, or inun'essing devices, or tor the dieheater, may be substituted for the specific devices herein shown without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus t'ully describwl' our invention,

we claim and desire to secure b y Letters Patent. of the United States- 1. In a cigaeprinting machine, the combination, with a horizontal die-cylinder, of a horizontal teed-roll parallel and adjacent to said cylinder and provided with cigar-holding" recesses in its periphery, and an inclined feeding-table extending partly over the said feedroll, and thereby adapted to deli ver cigars into the said recesses, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cigar-printing machine, the combination with a horizontal die-cylinder, of a horizontal teed-roll parallel and adjacent to the said cylinder and provided with cigarholding recesses in its periphery, an inclined feeding-table to deliver cigars into said recesses, and means, substantiallyas described, for heating the said die-cylinder, as set forth.

In a cigar-printing machine, the combination, with a cigar-impressor and a cigart'eeder, of an automatic eigar-moisteuer, substantiall as set: forth.

it. In a eigai printing machine, the combination, with a cigar-inlpressor and a cigart'eeder, of a cigar-moistiener and a die-heater, substantially as et forth.

I. The combination, with the die-cylinder A and the cigar-feedrollB, of the water-holding' tray or tank I I and the water-eonduetor ll, substantially as set forth.

JAMES \V. MCINDOE. GEORGE l MCINDOE. In presence of F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN. 

